Monday, May 06, 2013

Exile by Rebecca Lim

Mercy is
an angel with a shattered memory, exiled from heaven for a crime she can’t
remember committing.

So when
she ‘wakes’ inside the body and life of eighteen-year-old Lela Neill, Mercy has
only limited recall of her past life. Her strongest memories are of Ryan, the
mortal boy who’d begun to fall for her – and she for him.

Mercy soon
discovers that circumstances have forced Lela into waitressing at the Green
Lantern, a busy city café frequented by suits, cab drivers, strippers,
backpackers and the homeless, while caring for her terminally ill mother.

Just as
Mercy is adjusting to Lela’s life, her beloved, Luc, reappears in her dreams,
and she begins to glimpse her true nature and true feelings for Ryan. What she
does not know is that her attempts to contact Ryan may have explosive
consequences for everyone around her.

I was blown away by Mercy and Rebecca Lim's gorgeous writing
- "dark, despairing
and very very 'moreish'." Exile is good, just not as
good but despite that teensy disappointment I'll be continuing on with
the series, I've already bought the final two books haha.

Exile picks up where Mercy ends,
with self-named exiled angel, Mercy removed from previous host Carmen Zappacosta and
inhabiting 18 year old waitress, Lela Neill. Lela's story is an emotional one
and the ending is a kicker. I saw it coming but it's like a car crash, it hurts to look but you just can't turn away.

Exile builds on the complex mythology glimpsed in Mercy and
Mercy's splintered memories become more tangible. The search for answers continues. There's still so much we don't know ...